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...more than 200 bored Deputies abstained, only a few Communists and Fascists voted against him, and his Cabinet won by the pleasant if meaningless figure 320 to 32. In the lull thus created French politicians dickered feverishly to create a new Government majority necessitated by the Socialists' recent split with Premier Sarraut's Radical Socialists (actually Liberals) and based on a promising alignment which loomed last week between the Radical Socialists and potent centre blocs dominated by towering, dynamic former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin. As a great colonial administrator Premier Sarraut, twice Governor of French Indo-China...
...detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing room. After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassiére and Pola Negri's stepin. Other actresses who yielded underclothes: Hope Williams, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jean Arthur...
...foot ahead of Playboy McKee. Boston's prospects are problematical. The Beacon Hill minority that has been completely impotent in the past may find itself in the dizzy position of holding the balance of power. The bloc of votes which have meant victory in the past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman has the record of being a political giant-killer and his experience as a dock foreman combined with political astuteness make him a vote-getter among the working classes. Mansfield...
...purchase the Government was to finance for railroads (see p. 52). The four U. S. railmakers had entered identical bids on the 844,000-ton order: $37.75 a ton. Railroad Co-Ordinator Eastman, who had cried "Collusion!" at the offer, thought a fair price would be $35. The President split the difference. Agreed price: $36.37½. ¶The President appointed Joseph B. Keenan of Cleveland, special prosecutor in the Urschel kidnapping case, to be Assistant Attorney General, filling the vacancy left by resigning Pat Malloy...
...wheat and cotton, spent more millions helping farmers' co-operatives through the Farm Board in an effort to pass on to the farmers themselves the problem of marketing surpluses, raising prices, reducing acreage. Last week the oldest co-operative of all, Farmers' National Grain Dealers Association, split in two over policy, and the nation had on hand a 500,000,000 bu. surplus of corn, a 150,000,000 bu. surplus of wheat, a 500,000,000 Ib. surplus of hogs...